The tyrant's novel / Thomas Keneally.
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TextPublication details: Waterville, Me. : Wheeler/Windsor, 2005, c2004Edition: Large print edDescription: 328 p. (large print) ; 24 cmISBN: 1587247895Subject(s): Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction | Detention of persons -- Fiction | Political prisoners -- Fiction | Novelists -- Fiction | Despotism -- Fiction | Large print booksGenre/Form: Political fiction. DDC classification: 823/.914 LOC classification: PR9619.3.K46 | T97 2004bSummary: In a detention camp where he is neither granted asylum nor prepared to be sent back to his native land, a detainee bides his time. He insists on being called Alan Sheriff, a westernisation of his given name. His birth country was once a US ally but is now an enemy. Little more is known of Alan until a writer comes to interview him - resulting in a novel within a novel. Reminiscent of Fahrenheit 451, this is a dazzling story of a man caught between his government and his impulse to run for his life.
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In a detention camp where he is neither granted asylum nor prepared to be sent back to his native land, a detainee bides his time. He insists on being called Alan Sheriff, a westernisation of his given name. His birth country was once a US ally but is now an enemy. Little more is known of Alan until a writer comes to interview him - resulting in a novel within a novel. Reminiscent of Fahrenheit 451, this is a dazzling story of a man caught between his government and his impulse to run for his life.
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